Wizard,. .. .You must have been hearing things. . .If there was an emergency (and I have from a very reliable source that there wasn't)the ATC's would have professionally resolved it before attending the stopwork, even if that meant staying after the cessation of service.. .. .The Ladies and Gents of ATC in Oz are regretfully aware of the affect that thier activities are having on the industry, but have been driven to it by the lack of negotiation from ASA.(The ASA negotiators couldn't even be "bothered" to turn up to the negotiations scheduled after the Melbourne stop work, so my source informs me, so what else are they supposed to do?). .. .I just hope and pray that nothing serious happens on Thursday and that common sense finally makes an appearance and this all can be resolved.